As a new round of U.S. export crackdown on China’s semiconductor industry kicked off last week, global semiconductor giants have been evaluating the impact. Among them, U.S. chip equipment maker KLA may be the first company to go into detail, noting that the curbs would have roughly a USD 500 mill...

A new round of U.S. export crackdown on China’s semiconductor industry has been kicked off on Monday. As the new measures include export bans targeting roughly 140 companies, concerns have been raised about whether China would still be able to make advancements in the domain. However, according...

Ahead of the upcoming U.S. presidential election, U.S. semiconductor equipment giants Applied Materials and Lam Research are already working out to exclude Chinese firms from supply chains, driven by Washington’s directives to limit China’s role in sensitive leading-edge technologies, according ...

Amid the escalating tech war between China and the US, along with rising geopolitical tensions, China has accelerated its import of chip manufacturing equipment since the middle of last year to counter potential US chip sanctions, with Dutch company ASML and Japanese company Tokyo Electron (TEL) be...

Though the U.S. keeps tightening the export controls on the semiconductor sector, major chip equipment makers seem to become increasingly dependent on the Chinese market. According to a report by Nikkei, citing financial data such as Applied Materials and Lam Research, China’s share of sales have ...